In addition to record hit levels, the traffic data for May 2004 also revealed a dip in percentage for Internet Explorer, a trend that will hopefully continue in the future.
I expect "Netscape 5.0" use will continue to increase after the many excellent Gecko-based browsers on the horizon are finally released, including Mozilla 1.7 final, Mozilla Firefox 0.9 and 1.0, and Netscape 7.2.

Antony wrote:It seems to me, the percentage of MSIE 6 and MSIE 5 have decreased slightly.

It looks like May's dip in Internet Explorer use may be the start of a trend.

Total IE visits:April 2004: 61.3%
May 2004: 59.2%
June 2004: 55.7%

This is also reflected in a pronounced dip in the graph for IE 6 and IE total for the last two months, complemented with a nearly equivalent rise for the Netscape/Mozilla category. It would seem to be that IE users are switching to Mozilla-based browsers.

The percentage of MSIE 6 and MSIE 5 have dropped quite a lot.
Mozilla/Gecko based browsers are gaining the percentage.

This is third month in a row, we have more than 4 million hits. I can now state [sdp=37251]SillyDog701 can reach more than "7 Million hits" in two (2) months time[/sdp].
A screenshot of the reference of our traffic:

Mozilla and its derivatives* have the qualification of being the most popular browser among visitors, for the first time since February 2003.

From this information, it can be derived that for the month of July: Netscape/Mozilla* 51.1%, MSIE 46.7%.Not only that, but NS/Moz's 4.4% margin over Internet Explorer is the highest it has been since traffic results began to be publicly posted in this thread nearly two years ago.

It will be interesting to watch the rest of the Web (hopefully) follow these encouraging trends in the coming months or years.

*plus other browsers (specifically KHTML) inevitably picked up as "NS5.x"

So, NS5 has 4.4% market share, and MSIE has 90+% and is falling bit by bit...
Internet Explorer grabbed the Internet when it became big with the general computer user. People would probably tend to use whatever they know about. Seeing that Microsoft has ads just about everywhere, they're all set... I can't say I've ever seen an ad for Firefox besides the small Firefox buttons...
From what I've seen, people know more about Netscape than Mozilla, but Netscape's demise isn't exactly promising. They aren't exactly a browser maker anymore, more like a free AOL portal offering dialup services that nobody uses anymore.

I gather that Mozilla will probably become a popular browser if it makes its way into the public eye, although I doubt that will happen very soon.